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Monday 19 July 2010

Boulters Youth Freestyle

The Boulters weekend kicked off with the second British league event on the Saturday, 10th July. I was unable to attend as it was my 17th and wasn't really fit to be competing :) I did however go for the Youth Freestyle series on the Sunday. This was my first time at a Youth Freestyle event and also at Boulters. In the morning there were sessions run by the Junior GB team and Sam Ward working on both flatwater skills and moves in the feature preparing for the afternoons competitions. After lunch it was time for the competitions, James Weight came first in the under 18s and Brendan Orton in first for the under 15s. Full results will be posted once they have been released.

After competitions it was time for the special event organised by Rhys. It was a freestyle event with no boats allowed hucking yourself off the pourover in weird and wonderful ways.  Front and backflips soon got boring with new ideas such as human chains, synchronised moves and downtime being the main attraction.

All in all it was a great day!! Next Youth Freestyle event is the 15th August at the new whitewater course at Cardiff. I won't be at this event as I will be in sunny California at that time :) I should be around for the HPP event on the 12th September.

I am off on Saturday for a weeks coaching with Love It Live It's Sam Ward on one of his Freestyle Development Camps!!









Thanks to Kayakojacko, Pyranha and Squarerock for the organising of this event :D